Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach by Danny Iny

Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach

by Danny Iny

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If you front-load your education into a degree, in Danny Iny's argument, it won't keep up with what work asks of you. That gap opens room on both sides of the classroom: lifelong learners who need current skills, and experts with something to teach who can build online courses to supply them.

Core ideas
  • Universities fall short: Iny faults higher education for outdated curricula, high cost and slow institutions, and he ties that to student debt and employer skill gaps.
  • Learn continuously: Just-in-time learning across a career serves you better than packing your education into a degree at the start.
  • Then the how-to: The second half turns practical, covering curriculum design, learner motivation, assessment and online course completion rates, with reflection questions in each chapter.
Published2018
Pages228
ISBN9781940858692
ReadJan 2021

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